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The French Fifty Shades

Posted at 10:29PM Wednesday 16 Jan 2013

When it comes to erotica and pornography, whether hard, soft, sadomasochistic or merely steamy, the French believe they have done it first, done it better and done it all. So the French version of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy should have flopped.

But the French version of the first volume of "Fifty Shades" has defied the naysayers, selling an estimated 900,000 print copies and 40,000 e-books since last October.

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